Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 1418
Li Chengliang's troops did not move slowly in Liaodong. It took about half a month. They first arrived in Liaoyang from Guangning, then entered Qinghebao from Liaoyang, and then headed for Yahuguan.

The actions of Yang Yuan's troops were not as slow as expected. Although he had to make a detour, he only took seven days to arrive at Dong E's department, but the plan to win over Dong E's department did not seem to be particularly smooth.

Dong Ebu said that he had suffered heavy losses, and it was just after the Chinese New Year. In fact, spring has not yet started in Liaodong, so they sent troops or something... They didn't say they disagreed, but they said they needed time to prepare.In addition, the Dong E Department was also worried that if the war could not be ended quickly in the spring, it might affect the spring plowing.

God knows that his Dong'e tribe doesn't have a few acres of good land in total. Rather than worrying about spring plowing, it's better to worry about Nurhachi's future retaliation.

Yang Yuan was very dissatisfied with this, but at this moment in order to complete the task, he had to make false claims with Dong Ebu, planning to ignore the three sevens and twenty ones, and just talk about them sending troops first, it doesn't matter if they send more or less.

Yang Yuan knew the meaning of Li Chengliang's order to him, not to say that the troops that Dong E's troops could send out would have much military impact, but because the main mission of General Kuandian was to suppress Dong E in the north and deter North Korea in the east.There is nothing wrong with North Korea now, but it is obviously related to Dong E's tribe. Therefore, Dong E's tribe must be brought in to show that the Manchurian wind is coming from Yunhe under the order of Ming Ming.

Of course, this item was not that important originally, but when Ye He took the initiative to send troops to assist, Li Chengliang had no choice but to let Yang Yuan do so.

On the surface, Ye He sent troops to assist Cao Yu to see Cao Yu's face, but in fact, it was naturally to see Cao Yu's pragmatic face behind him.The Practical School has not been operating in Liaodong for a long time. In the early years when Gao Gong sent Zhang Xueyan to serve as Liaofu, the Practical School did not regard Liaodong as its own sphere of influence.It was not until Gao Yushi took office in southern Liaoning that the Real School began to operate Liaodong in a serious manner under the influence of Gao Yushi.

But having said that, the Heart School did not regard Liaodong as their sphere of influence at the beginning, and they only started to exert their strength in Liaodong after Li Chengliang took office.It's just that Li Chengliang's foundation in Liaodong is solid enough, so the Xin School has a psychological advantage. Compared with the Real School, Liaodong should be their home field.

Under such circumstances, the Real School can make a family of Jurchen strong chiefs follow suit. How can the Heart School and Li Chengliang be compared in this respect?The fault is that Hada is really useless now, and Li Chengliang even wants to get Hada involved.

Although Menggebulu was highly pragmatic and praised him, Li Chengliang felt that Menggebulu would not dare to ignore his uncle Li's words-this confidence Li Chengliang still has.

So this cheated Yang Yuan, who had been waiting in Dong E's department for five days, and Dong E's department was still calmly counting the grain and fodder, "calculating" how many soldiers he could send.

The marching speed of Cao Yu and Qi Jin in the middle road is really not fast. Except for the section where the road is relatively easy just after leaving Fushun Pass, they have been pulling their hips since Saerhu.

Since they have already passed the side wall, it stands to reason that they may encounter enemy troops at any time. Therefore, the infantry of the Ming army marched wearing heavy armor, not to mention the attached artillery and car battalions. Where can I go soon?

Even though Jinghua's cannon car and Qi Jiajun's side van all adopted Jinghua's unique spring shock absorption technology, the problem now is not the spring but the tires.

Not to mention that natural rubber is still obediently staying in Central and South America and has not been discovered by people other than the aborigines.Even if it is discovered, or even obtained by Jinghua, it doesn't make much sense, because Gao Yushi doesn't know how to use natural rubber technology.

The technical content of making natural rubber into tires for industrial use is obviously not something that can be done at present.Apart from remembering that sulfur seems to be useful, Gao Yushi has almost no memory at all, and he knows nothing about the rubber vulcanization process.

Nowadays, the wheels used by Jinghua are made of thin wire spokes and wooden wheels, and the outer ring of the wooden wheels is wrapped with iron sheets.The thin wire spokes are easy to understand, just like the bicycle spokes of later generations, wooden wheels covered with iron sheets may be known to fewer people, but this technology is actually not new.

How was this iron sheet added?After the wheel was finished and the circumference of the outer end of the wheel was measured, the blacksmith was asked to make an iron ring of the same length. First, the wooden wheel was soaked in water, and then the heated iron ring was directly placed on the wooden wheel. Then quickly add water to cool down, so that the iron ring is cooled rapidly.That is to use the principle of thermal expansion and contraction to wrap the iron ring on the wooden wheel to complete the processing of the iron-skinned wooden wheel.

There were so many carpenters in the Ming Dynasty... Well, there were so many carpenter emperors that even appeared later, so Jinghua seldom made wooden wheels, but directly outsourced them. Folk carpenters became Jinghua's "parts supporting enterprises".

Because Jinghua has steel factories everywhere, there are many blacksmiths, who are responsible for post-processing.However, Jinghua also has its own unique skills, that is, Jinghua's iron sheets are not ordinary smooth iron sheets. According to high-level practical requirements or instructions, Jinghua's wheel iron sheets are added with anti-skid patterns.

But that's all. The patterned iron sheet is relatively non-slip, but you still have to be careful in the icy and snowy wilderness of Liaodong.Especially those artillery vehicles loaded with artillery, due to the relationship between the artillery, the body weight is too heavy, once it slips, it will be an accident, and it is not uncommon to kill people, so the march of Cao Yu and Qi Jin's troops is really slow.

Among the four armies, only Ma Chengxun marched at a high speed.Under the leadership of him and Fei Yingdong, [-] cavalry ran across the territory of Hada in just two days, and took a day to capture a stockade belonging to the left guard of Jianzhou.

In fact, this stockade was far from being captured, it was actually an empty stockade with no one in it, and it seemed that Nurhachi had given up on it long ago.The Ming army did not find anything useful after entering the village. Ma Chengxun planned to burn the village directly when he left, but was dissuaded by Fei Yingdong.

Although Fei Yingdong was reckless in fighting, he was a Jurchen after all. He knew that it was not easy to build a village with Jurchen's construction ability. It is probably because of this that Nurhachi evacuated the people but did not burn the village to cause trouble for the Ming army. reason.So he persuaded Ma Chengxun to leave the stockade, "It can be regarded as a place to stay when you return to the teacher in triumph."

Ma Chengxun thought about it, and felt that it didn't matter if he stayed. If he still didn't like the Jianzhou Zuowei, it wouldn't be too late to turn around and burn it again, so he gave Fei Yingdong a face. Li will stay overnight and continue southward the next day.

After walking another seventy or eighty miles, and "capturing" two empty strongholds again, Ma Chengxun couldn't help but sneered: "That guy Nurhachi is not stupid, he knows that these small strongholds can't be defended anyway, so he just gave up. It’s a pity that this idea is not very smart. I will encircle the four forces tomorrow, and he will withdraw all his troops to Hetuala. In fact, it is convenient for us to catch them all.”

When he said this, Fei Yingdong suddenly felt that something was wrong.

Here is a point that is different from the original history: At the beginning of the 16th year of Wanli in the original history, Hetuala was not Nurhachi’s old village. At that time, Nurhachi’s seat was in Foala City.

Foala and Hetuala are not the same place.The location of Foala is in Erdao Village, Yongling Town, Xinbin County, Liaoning Province, and Hetuala is in Laocheng Village, Yongling Town, Xinbin County, Liaoning Province—you read that right, they are both in the same county, but the location is different , and the historical origins are also different.

The earliest old city of Foala was the cottage where Li Man, the leader of the Jurchen, lived. Its name at that time is no longer known.In April of the third year of Chenghua, Jurchen leader Dong Shan and others were recruited by the Ming court, and together with Li Gunaha and others went to the capital to pay tribute.In August, Dong Shan was trapped and killed in Guangning, and Li Gunaha fled back to Jianzhou.In September, the Ming court ordered General Jinglu Zhao Fu and others to lead an army of [-] troops to split up and go straight to Foala, the headquarters of Jianzhou.At the same time, the Ming court also "dated Korean soldiers" to attack Jianzhou.

Therefore, North Korea sent Kang Chun and others to lead more than 1 soldiers and horses to attack, crossed the Yalu River on September 29, attacked Li Manzhu and other villages living along the Pozhu River on September 286, and broke through Wumi Mansion on the [-]th. , Li Manzhu, his son Li Gunaha and [-] people under his control were captured and killed, and the prisoners were dedicated to Xianzong in the first month.

In the 12th year of Wanli, Nurhaci built a city on the ruins here. Because the city was built in the old place, it was named "Foala". "Foala" means "old hillock" and "old old city" in Manchu.After the city was built, Nurhachi used it as a government office, and it was not until the 31st year of Wanli that Hetuala was newly built and moved.

However, this life is different, because he received high-level pragmatic support in the early days of his army, and high-level pragmatic support meant Jinghua's support, so Nurhachi obtained more than the original historical income from the trade cooperation with Jinghua at that time. more abundant financial resources.

Therefore, Nurhachi did not take a fancy to Foala this time, but directly built a city in Hetuala, his birthplace, and came to the right place in one step.

Although these two places are close, Hetuala is a little bit northerly, and its location is better than that of Foala. It is located at a fork in the Sukesuhu River-the river is to the north and the river is to the west.

The river is of course an excellent barrier, with high military value, but there is a problem: this place is in the valley of Changbai Mountain in Liaodong, and it is early spring when the snow has not melted even though the New Year has passed.

This means that the Suke Suhu River is still in the ice age, and the so-called isolation effect of the river cannot be reflected at all.With the current coldness in Liaodong, it is no problem for four thousand cavalry to cross the river directly on the ice.

That being the case, what is the use of Nurhachi withdrawing the troops and even the leaders of the villages in the north to Hetuala? Is it really just for the convenience of the Ming army?

Although Fei Yingdong had never been to Hetuala, he never believed that Nurhachi could build the old Zuowei camp in Jianzhou as strong as Kaiyuan.And based on his understanding of the firepower of the Ming army after this trip, if Nurhachi really sticks to Hetuala, it will be basically the same as waiting for death-the "city" of the Jurchens will definitely not be able to withstand the bombardment of the Ming army.

Fei Yingdong didn't believe that Nurhachi didn't know this, because Nurhachi had served in Li Chengliang's army, and Shuerhaqi had been with Cao Yu in the recent Battle of Liaobei. All firepower should have a very clear understanding.

Therefore, Fei Yingdong believes that Nurhachi can never hope to defend the city!
"Ma Shenrong, something is wrong with this matter." Although Fei Yingdong felt that Ma Chengxun was a bit arrogant and not very talkative, but it was a matter of success or failure of the war, he had to advise: "Brother Nurhachi evacuated these villages. I'm afraid it's trying to tempt me to go deeper, and then..."

"Then ambush me?" Ma Chengxun waved his hand and interrupted, "It's possible, I've thought about it too."

When he said this, Fei Yingdong was a little surprised: "Since Ma Shenrong also expected this possibility, why..."

"Why do you have to go deep alone?" Ma Chengxun looked up to the sky and smiled: "Ha! If you dare not go up, I don't dare to go up, so this battle is still a shit? I'll go to his grandma's Li... well, he treats me like a fool , I still think he is an anti-main guy (Datong dialect: worthless)! If he has the ability to go up and level Hetuala by himself, he looks like a dog. I don’t want to pee on him.”

Fei Yingdong didn't expect that Ma Chengxun would dare to scold Li Chengliang so straightforwardly—you must know that the Jurchens always call Li Chengliang "Master Li", and Fei Yingdong never dared to underestimate him.

However, although Ma Chengxun scolded happily, Fei Yingdong was still a little worried. He frowned and said, "Ma Shen is a hero, but the right time and place are not with us. To be honest, we are all cavalry. In this Changbai Mountain It's very convenient. Even if there are valleys all the way, there are very few places where we can set up our battles. If I were Nurhachi, I would definitely find a narrow place to set up an ambush..."

"I know that." Ma Chengxun looked around and lowered his voice slightly: "Why do you think I was hurrying all the way? I was thinking that there were not many cavalry under Nurha's bare hands (there were not many at this time, Because there is no money), his infantry have to prepare in advance if they want to set up an ambush. If I come fast enough, it will be 'the speed of the soldiers', and it is very likely that they will rush all the way before they reach the ambush location. "

Fei Yingdong thought about it for a while, and felt that although the truth was the same, it was a bit of a gamble. What if Nurhachi acted fast enough?
Seeing that Fei Yingdong was still frowning, Ma Chengxun couldn't help being a little unhappy, and said with a long face: "It doesn't matter if you dare not come with me, that's how it is: I will go ahead, and you will hang far behind." So, just treat it as the queen of the palace, how about it? I won’t bully you, and when the time comes, you will be rewarded for meritorious service, and I will still count as your share.”

These words hurt his self-esteem a bit, Fei Yingdong's complexion changed: "Chan Rong thinks that the younger ones are those who are greedy for life and afraid of death?"

Ma Chengxun raised his eyebrows, but didn't speak, which means...

Fei Yingdong was so angry that his temples were throbbing, and he gritted his teeth and said: "Fei Yingdong is not a hero, but he is not willing to be left behind. No matter how dangerous it is to join the army, even if it is a dragon's lair or a mountain of swords and seas of fire, I, Fei Yingdong, will accompany you to the end!"

Ma Chengxun laughed, put down his arrogance as a heavenly general, and patted Fei Yingdong on the shoulder and said, "Okay, very good, with such an aura, he is worthy to go with this soldier!"
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